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In the realm of hungry ghosts close encounters with addiction

Based on Gabor Maté's two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his work with the severely addicted on Vancouver's skid row, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts reenvisions this much misunderstood field by taking a holistic approach. Dr. Maté presents addiction not as a discrete phenomenon confi...

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Main Author: Maté, Gabor (Author)
Other Authors: Levine, Peter (writer of foreword.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : North Atlantic Books, [2010]
Lyons, Colorado : Ergos Institute, [2010]
Subjects:
Maté, Gabor.
Substance abuse > History.
Compulsive behavior > Social aspects.
Addicts > Treatment.
Substance abuse > Patients > British Columbia > Vancouver > Case studies.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Peter Levine
  • Hungry ghosts: The realm of addiction
  • Part I: Hellbound train
  • The only home he's ever had
  • The lethal hold of drugs
  • The keys of paradise: Addiction as a flight from distress
  • You wouldn't believe my life story
  • Angela's grandfather
  • Pregnancy journal
  • Beethoven's birth room
  • There's got to be some light
  • Part II: Physician, heal thyself
  • Takes one to know one
  • Twelve-step journal: April 5, 2006
  • Part III: A different state of the brain
  • What is addiction?
  • From Vietnam to "Rat Park": Do drugs cause addiction?
  • A different state of the brain
  • Through a needle, a warm, soft hug
  • Cocaine, dopamine, and candy bars: The incentive system in addiction
  • Like a child not released
  • Part IV: How the addicted brain develops
  • Their brains never had a chance
  • Trauma, stress, and the biology of addiction
  • It's not in the genes
  • Part V: The addiction process and the addictive personality
  • "A void I'll do anything to avoid"
  • Too much time on external things: The addiction-prone personality
  • Poor substitutes for love: Behavioral addictions and their origins
  • Part VI: Imagining humane reality: Beyond the war on drugs
  • The social roots of addiction
  • Know thine enemy
  • "Ignorant fanaticism": The failed war on drugs
  • Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom
  • - Toward an enlightened social policy on drugs
  • Reducing harm
  • Part VII: The ecology of healing
  • The power of compassionate curiousity
  • The internal climate
  • The four steps, plus one
  • Sobriety and the external milieu
  • A word to families, friends, and caregivers
  • There is nothing lost: Addiction and the spiritual quest
  • Appendix I: Fallacies of adoption and twin studies
  • Appendix II: A close link: Attention deficit disorder and addictions
  • Appendix III: The prevention of addiction
  • Appendix IV: The twelve steps.

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